SAN FRANCISCO—More than $75,000 has been raised by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender organizations and LGBT movement leaders to help young LGBT undocumented immigrants pay for work permit applications made possible through President Obama’s new “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals” (DACA) program. The president’s program, which took effect August 15, allows young people who were…
Ann Romney will turn down down an invitation to speak at this weekend’s Values Voter Summit, held by the Family Research Council (FRC). BuzzFeed reported that the Romney campaign told them that there were no plans for Ann Romney to attend or speak at the conference. HRC, who joined a number of other human rights groups…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (CNN) – For Democrats who gathered at their convention in the swing state of North Carolina, the high glitz extravaganza watched by millions on television was a partisan infomercial that has paid off, for the moment, in energizing their voters. For Republicans who convened in the battleground state of Florida, the impact on…
SOUTHAMPTON, England – A man selected for jury duty faces prosecution after he claimed he was unable to serve as a juror due to his “… extreme prejudices against homosexuals and black/foreign people.” The Southern Daily Echo reported that the man wrote to the court after he was selected to serve on the jury in…
In controversial remarks, that have inadvertently offended some in the LGBT community, writer-director Nick Cassavetes has placed incest alongside gay marriage. In an interview with TheWrap at the launch of his new movie Yellow at the Toronto Film Festival, Cassavetes started to defend the main character’s incestuous love affair with her own brother. Cassavetes whose…
NEW YORK – A coalition of human rights groups is calling on public officials not to attend the upcoming Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., because its host, the Family Research Council (FRC), has spread demonizing lies about the LGBT community, and because one of its co-sponsors, the American Family Association (AFA), has linked homosexuality…
CNN presenter Anderson Cooper has made his first public comments about being gay since he came out last July. Speaking Monday on his new daytime show Anderson Live, he told his guest co-host Kristen Chenowith, “Everybody in my life … since I’ve been an adult and since I was a kid, I mean, I came…
SUFFIELD, Conn. (CNN) – The Archdiocese of Hartford has rebuked a Suffield priest who participated in the wedding ceremony of his male cousin and another man. Archbishop Henry J. Mansell rebuked the Rev. Michael DeVito of Sacred Heart Church after a wedding announcement in The New York Times mentioned the priest’s role in the ceremony….
David Cecil, producer of “The River and the Mountain,” a play said to have been created to spark conversations about homosexuality in the African nation of Uganda, has drawn the ire of that country’s law-enforcement officials and higher-ups in government, as well as in the powerful church leadership there. The various parties’ displeasure at Cecil’s…
Suburban Detroit lesbian moms, April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse,announced their challenge in federal court to Michigan’s constitutional ban of same-sex marriage, according to the Detroit Metropolitan News, with their three children present at a news conference. The move comes as what the couple have come to see as a necessary step in their struggle to…
